Prepare to be amazed, appalled, disgusted—and of course thoroughly entertained—by this compendium of indelicate oddities. Karl Shaw, who also gave us Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty, promises that nothing is too inane, too insane, too bizarre, or too distasteful for this collection of historical facts. Here you will learn that it was hardened boozer Pope Benedict XII who inspired the expression "drunk as a pope" (from 10 Historic Drunks), that the best-dressed gentlemen in medieval England exposed their genitals below a short-fitting tunic (from History's 10 Greatest Fashion Mistakes), that Alfred Hitchcock suffered from ovophobia (a fear of eggs—from 10 Phobias of the Famous), and that one of the five on the titular list is former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller.